international in the very heart of moscow. or back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour bombings at the boston marathon this afternoon and shut down one of our nation's most important cities rumors are swirling about terrorist attacks and lone wolf plots so much about today's disaster remains unclear we'll check in with very no one in boston just a second and ignore the right wing spin machine solar power is here to stay the germans have figured it out and so can we tell you why it's to take. you forward to the long haul i'd like to check in with barry no one for an update from boston

buries a former t.v. news cast for the b.b.c. t.v. ad boston and a professor of journalism at boston university gary thanks for staying with us. so what's the latest. the latest is people trying to ignore all the rumors and tell we get information that is something that the police say this is for certain we know the one hundred or so people have been admitted to hospitals and sought medical care some of the injuries are really grievous we know two are dead we know that there were two explosions at least and that police have said that they found two other explosive devices and one of the things to begin to think about is the odd timing of this how this went off around three o'clock and anybody has ever run a marathon knows that this is about the time in the event where the people that are coming across the finish line are not the people that are the top elite athletes

that may when some money these are people who don't even get free shoes for running the marathon these are people that train the year people that are running because somebody they know has cancer people that are running to raise money for diabetes awareness people that are just running but because they had a divorce or because they want to you know lose weight and they're regular people these are this is a striking a blow against some ruling elite this is doing something that's just an expressively cruel to people that this was their day when they did something that they did totally on their own that made them feel just a bully and enjoying full people come together from countries all over the world and to strike at that time seemed such an oddly casually cruel pointless

thing that this is going to haunt this city for a long time i think you're absolutely right barry thanks so much for the for the latest information and for the for that thoughtful commentary. joining me now for a special edition of our low liberal rumble our rusty humphries nationally syndicated conservative talk show host for show yes i spent a lot of time working on that name. and scott e-mail who says director of and contributor to the tea party news network a lot more creative i thought bowl. ok that is text it april fifteenth and america's wealthy elite are able to generally avoid paying their share we have twenty three trillion dollars thirty two trillion dollars station offshore haven now this isn't just american money but obama got

a good deal on his taxes look i get eighty percent that's pretty awesome that yeah i wish i could get that deal indeed indeed and. this is like you know something just fundamentally dysfunctional swith with with the whole system in the united states should we. how do what are your thoughts on how we should be reforming. our tax i mean first of all i agree i don't think we should be having a whole bunch of tax shelters all around the world that people spend money and don't keep money here the united states on the other top mitt romney's swiss bank accounts and in some ways your swiss bank account of mine we're all going crazy on our us with the bank and neither do i tried to get into a swiss bank one time they kicked me out of his will i actually when i lived in germany i tried to open a swiss bank account you have to pay them to take your money i know it's amazing it's a matter of fact i went to switzerland we when you and i went to africa to get anyway i know i don't think that this should be i agree with the word fair but i also think our definitions of fair are different for example

a fair flat tax for example just for example where the guy that's made in the least amount he's paying ten percent i'm paying ten percent mitt romney's paying ten percent we're all paying the same amount we're all contributing to ramos using a lot. in lots of the commons private jets use it all kinds of runways and things and i was working all guys are the guy i work at yeah but there were going to wal-mart i mean how much of the commons is he using the real little bit of bread would listen that we all i think it's guardian of you have it that i am female inside to me. al gore are you kidding me how many jobs have al gore actually put on the earth and you're coming up mitt romney who has put jobs on when you sit here and tax the upper crust what you're doing is taking money away for people to hire what's going on the government why is the sky that during the time when we had the highest tax rate you know since ninety one percent top tax rate from from the mid nineteenth thirty's throughout the forty's throughout the fifty's throughout the sixty's throughout the seventy's nixon eisenhower i mean all kinds of republican

presidents they totally supported those we had the greatest growth in the history of the united states we had the strongest middle class in the history united states and the very wealthy on average made thirty times what working people average working people now we've got the very wealthy making five hundred thousand ten thousand times and it looks to me like it's because the reagan's tax cuts but because of reagan fact that i'm so i think it last time i checked this is the land of opportunity and we were a generation that promoted capitalism and so therefore you can only make so much and then we're going to take more of it away we should show so run out of capitalism and talk shows i mean you know whatever serious this battle is much when you have a cynical who make their living city other boat around the pool waiting for the dividend checks to go i mean i really don't know all the warren buffett guys like that absolutely do we're regular guys we work but i mean the taxes that i spend when i can i think was that i think i deserve a special lane at the d.m.v. because i'm spend a lot more money there as i want to speculate on why should the capitals why should warren buffet only pay twenty percent income tax because he's making money on money

or i or sell my i don't disagree why history where you and i agree i don't have a problem i agree with you the good if you agree with ronald reagan and to me it should be tagged as a gesture to. it should be fair across the board i guess at a ten percent rate and everybody would agree i think it's just a guy who disagrees we have a tax we're going to talk about it and then never say a republican i did write you going to be a good guy i mean if i waited a night or not in ninety six reagan had set the regular tax rate of twenty eight percent and raise the capital gains rate all the way up to twenty eight percent and he said it is crazy this is a verb you don't call it he said it is crazy they have a fair tax you can have a flat tax or god forbid we reignite the herman cain and then non-tax whatever it might be we had no thing that crazy like why don't we just go back to the just across the border why don't we go back to eisenhower as texas to why we're talking about his wealth distribution punishing those that have make money to give to those that don't why should a nation we had you on the air is running away from them million are out of the way

part of the problem tom i think what's going on today is i think we're paying the piper now i think a lot of what happened in the past where you're saying we had a lot higher middle class also going to that right now we did but i think now we're sort of pay the price i think you know you talk about thirty two years of reaganomics zero down you get our existence now you're just going through the wheat when reagan did in office we were the largest creditor in the world we are now the largest debtor in the world when reagan came into office we're the largest exporter of exporter of manufactured goods the world we're now the largest in the army and they should with all that we've got to be honest here tom and that is that government has expanded as gotten much much larger when we're spending a lot of money on things that we don't already spend money on rate as a percentage of g.d.p. the government was larger under reagan than it is now under obama now wait a minute let's look at this seventeen trillion dollars in debt i do not remember being seventeen trillion dollars in debt under ronald reagan nobody table the national debt already a little million people on food stamps on a literally i know you think it's a really good outtakes reaganomics you're going to play on i'm saying body at least you're not blaming george bush anymore we have gone back no longer it's no wonder

bush's fault we're now going back away we also had one of the least that is that if you want if you're concerned about all those people on food stamps and let's at least say that if you're going to take you to run a business. you know rusty and i we run businesses right and maybe you do too i am not sure i have a lemonade ok all right so if you don't know if you're going to get get all the benefits of being able to deduct a meal and i have to you know there's all kinds of goodies that come with running a business at the very least you should pay your employees decently let's raise the minimum wage to ten dollars you know what you get people don't want to just make the minimum wage that is not the american dream to inspire people to make just the minimum wage we should be inspiring them to make more than that but guess what if you make more than that we're going to tax you more you know what kind of dream is that ten dollars an hour people are still a minimum wage is what you're going to raise the minimum wage to seven dollars you raise them to ten dollars all of a sudden everything else goes up then you have to raise twelve to thirteen i really really thirty five when i was a kid were and they were and if you were to inflation adjust the one nine hundred sixty eight minimum wage right now because i was going to you're going to raise it

to ten dollars and then you're going to also tax the boss the owner of the company at some point how much you're going to keep biting out of business before you decide it goes bankrupt i think that's kind of what happened in iowa i know this now we have a new detroit well you know it was we we changed our trade policies same way we not only trade unions the whole reason why detroit michigan is bailing them out but maybe that was another segment on out there and that's why everything you buy in a wal-mart is not made in the united states on the market and i used to be and while that alive anymore that is the problem we don't have great people like them like on the board they have to get deals i think this had nothing to do with reagan . i'm sorry i missed christine. ok so we can continue i'm sorry mr q. . but what the in my mind the real job creators are the people who spend one hundred percent of their income because they create demand in the economy and that's the one hundred percent isn't as much as somebody like you

for example but is spending but if i spend close to a hundred percent but if it but if mitt romney has taken twenty million bucks and he spends living on a million and he's putting one hundred million in swiss banker. i don't see how that helps anybody but if the real job creators of the people who are spending all of their income those are the people who are on the minimum wage they're the people earning the minimum wage so shouldn't we raise the minimum wage at least to where it was in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when actually our economy was actually working when i first know if you want to get really rich people you might want to go with john kerry we could use that as a better i'm going to have warned about it to you i mean we go down right now and there are more democrats on millionaires list than there are republicans i don't care about but not quite but your guys you keep going after ours let them nor that they have the poverty of the left is you know they're not what you know we don't need more money on your back that what if we say you know a billion dollars isn't anything about our plans always anything over a billion i don't talk about wealth and you know we got a billion dollars a maximum wage i'm talking wealth not wages anything over

a billion dollars one hundred percent office confiscation then when the motivation to work then you just put everybody on millionaire welfare you think you think somebody with a billion dollars is working because they need more money now but they're worried because they have a work at they can that's what the allow them to end up like when lee iacocca ran chrysler for a dollar or steve jobs right now for a dollar but those are the ways i mean we're we want to be able to have choices in america and if you choose that you want to only want to make a billion dollars that should be ok our rusty humphries scott you know he was thank you for joining thank you what do you good. after the break there's a lot of sunshine coming down in the u.s. each and every day but for some reason we aren't using it to power our country i'll tell you why that is how we can start relying more on solar power inside still to.

international and world in the very heart of moscow. and welcome back whistleblowers have a long and storied history in the united states for decades they've been an lightning in our society on the corruption and injustices that take place in america each and every day and being

a whistleblower isn't easy as thomas drake the national security agency whistleblower who is charged in the espionage act put it it's extremely dangerous in america right now to be right as a whistleblower when the government is so wrong. it is those challenges and obstacles that was the blower's face in america today that of the subject of a new film war on whistleblowers free press and the national security state joining me now to talk more about that film and the environment the whistleblowers face in america today is robert greenwald filmmaker and founder of brave new films robert welcome thank you great to be with you so tell us tell us about. i was going to say tell us about whistleblowers but actually what inspired you to make a movie about whistleblowers who was actually two things that came together top one i was reading about the crackdown on whistleblowers the use of the espionage act against whistleblowers as if they were spies which really seemed obscene to me and

at the same time great investigative journalists were being pressured their sources were taken away some of them were actually threatened then indicted with legal action and i thought those two elements together were very very important jim arising from the new york times says can you have a democracy without an aggressive investigative press and it seemed to me it's being threatened. why well as the people in the film talk about this to investigative reporters and i think they make very good cases is it's two things one is jane mayer and dana priest talk about obama getting too close to the cia relying on the cia and then more profoundly and more systemically this is a function of an expanding bureaucratic national security state and national security state is you when you're you are is know all too well is taking on one point seven e-mails a day that it's listening or watching the reading and the. billion e-mails

a day comes from dana priest and it's great where. a building or buildings the size of three pentagons all part of the national security state and again not to overwhelm. but facts with ten thousand different locations ten thousand locations around this country all dedicated to national security and it's expanding portfolio it's expanding impact on us and the national security state says everything secret nobody should talk whistleblowers shouldn't throw the book at them and journalists should not have access to the whistleblowers or see the movie the lives of others yes when. i was in east berlin when it was east berlin and i thought you said you were in the movie no no i lived right across the border there and. that was a national security state gone you know run amok you know east germany everybody

was spying and everybody else everybody was there all these dossiers well how did we get there or how why are we moving in i mean i don't think there's any american who doesn't want us to have a secure nation. have we reached the point where the war on whistleblowers that you document in this movie and the national security state associated with it or the seems to be driving it if from what you're saying is actually acting contrary to the interests of the united states in terms of national security well certainly it's an important question to raise it's an important conversation to have what we know for a fact is the national security state is not just getting bigger and bigger but the profit motive. and central of so much of this back to eisenhower as a warning well there you go and there's a truth to it and then you have bureaucracy run amok politics aside it's the nature of certain kinds of bureaucracy they spread and they get bigger and bigger and

bigger and they trying to take everything in and we're seeing the results of that you know the what what we don't understand and what we try to do in the film is connect it with your daily life so the ability to pick up a newspaper and read a great investigative piece exposing fraud or corruption but where your tax dollars are going that's going to be threatened is being threatened by the obama administration and the national security state say we don't want anything talked about. so just lock down the information lock down the people there was a fellow from a u.b.s. switzerland who exposed some there's a remarkable stuff. is there a parallel concern from a corporate security state you know i notice. various websites i see ads for things that you know i mean i was in germany and i'm looking at a web site and here's an ad for a show at the arena theater there in

a staged theater here in d.c. where i've been you know how do they know that i've been there and it's like it is there is there a corollary there or is this really just a government problem we have about a half a minute and said well i think there's two things there is. certainly the problem of people being able to follow you on the websites and where you are i know when the koch brothers were attacking me they took out little ads and as my daughter said my beady eyes appeared all over wherever she would not be good to net and i think that's a real issue there we struggle with what we focus on in the movie what we hope that people will see use and do is saying here's an administration that many people believe did and is doing some very bad things on this issue so. the movie again the title of the movie is. this that i will do our war on whistleblower war i was a war's free press in the national security state there you go thank you so much for being with us straight good luck with that thank you robert.

it's no secret that thanks to global warming and climate change and arctic sea ice is melting at unprecedented levels just how unprecedented are those levels according to new research and a thousand year ant arctica peninsula climate reconstruction summerize melting in that region has increased ten fold and most of that melting occurred in the twentieth century researchers arrived at these startling findings by examining a thousand foot long ice core ice cores possesse layers they give information on periods of thawing and freezing like the rings of a tree ice core layers reveal seasons years and are able to give scientists an in-depth look at the history of that cold region by studying the ice core scientists determined that summer ice melting at the specific region in the

antarctic where the core was taken from is higher than in any other time over the past thousand years it's clear that global warming and climate change are hitting one of the most pristine. in places on earth with unprecedented speed and it's only going to get worse if we continue to do nothing to curb the biggest threat this planet has ever faced fortunately one way we can start doing more to curb climate change is by making a major push to rely more on solar power solar power is one of the most truly renewable and green forms of energy on the planet more importantly solar power does not create greenhouse gases unlike oil gas and coal powered energy systems do and while america might be legen behind some countries across the globe really fully understand the benefits of solar power and are now using solar power more and more to supply their electric grids that's for example were germany comes in

germany is the world's top photo voltaic installer in two thousand and eleven solar power accounted for about three percent of that country's total electricity the nation is set goals to produce thirty five percent of its total electricity from solar power by two thousand and twenty and a half by two thousand and fifty i was in germany week and a half ago and it was nearly impossible not to find a city where the houses are covered with solar panels take a train ride across the german countryside you see solar panels solar array everywhere then there's portugal that nation's electric network operator just announced that renewable energy like solar power supplied seventy percent yes seven zero seventy percent of total consumption in the first quarter of this year germany and portugal are wealthy nations and can afford to invest money on solar power and other sources of renewable energy. but even countries substantially

poorer than germany are turning to solar power using that renewable source of energy to help power neighborhoods and communities. in india local solar power charging stations are popping up in some of the country's worst slums and smallest villages millions of indians own cell phones that live in homes that have no access to electricity and as a result they have to find new sources of energy to power their devices that's where polan eight energy comes in poland energy and indian social enterprise ngo has in just the past five months sold four hundred private solar systems to indian slum dwellers in bangalore one of their country's largest and poorest cities these private solar systems are often no larger than the palm of your hand yet they're becoming tools for survival in the world's most overpopulated country and they pay for themselves in just six months which is

a big selling point for people making just three or four dollars a day meanwhile back here in the united states the world's wealthiest nation solar power isn't growing at anything close to the reader it is in so many of these other countries and that might have something to do with america's utility companies utility companies in this country are deathly afraid of solar power because it means homes offices buildings could go off the electric grid and become energy self-sufficient the centralized power industry hasn't figured out a way to own the sunshine the hits the roof of your home or office so for utilities point of view every kilowatt hour of rooftop solar power is a kilowatt hour of reduced demand for their product and a direct hit to that utilities bottom line. same is true of energy conservation which is why utilities are often hostile to the idea of energy efficiency and if

you don't believe me just ask the edison electric institute it's the trade in lobbying group for us investor own that is is in for profit utility companies the group recently released a report in which they openly express their fear of a day when americans would to her have to rely on utility companies for power because we can generate it ourselves the report says while we would expect customers to remain on the grid until a fully viable and economic distributed non-variable resources available one can imagine a day when battery storage technology or micro turbines could allow customers to be electric grid independent to put this into perspective who would have believed ten years ago that traditional wire line telephone customers could economically cut the cord but what's more important here worrying about the wallets of utility company executives or actively working to slow the devastating effects of climate change

now's the time to embrace clean and green solar power it's time that homes in the united states were dotted with solar panels on their roofs like they are in germany and the commercial buildings had many solar power plants in their parking lots if paul size solar panels can catch on in the slums of india and solar power can catch on in the wealthiest nation in the world. it's time to save the environment becomes so so they become sustainable and go so. and that's the way it is tonight monday april fifteenth two thousand and thirteen for more information check out our website so tom hartman dot com free speech dot org party dot com and blue dot com slash picture and don't forget democracy begins when you get out there get active tag your city.

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